MIKE MASTERSON: End run in Ledge Did you read about the latest legislative end run around the existing authority responsible for issuing permits to meat-raising facilities like C&H Hog Farms in Newton County? Turning into law Sen. Gary Stubblefield’s Senate Bill 550–which would transfer the authority for approval of concentrated […]
NWAonline Owners seek second hog farm permit by Emily Walkenhorst Co-owners of a Newton County hog farm have resubmitted their application to build a hog farm in Franklin County. Philip Campbell and Jason Henson, who co-own C&H Hog Farms with Richard Campbell, withdrew the application late last year after the Arkansas […]
NWAonline Bill seeks to diminish oversight of hog farms On Thursday, Senate Bill 550 passed the Arkansas Senate Agricultural Committee. A Farm Bureau agent sat next to the bill’s sponsor. This bill is meant to gut the regulations that got the C&H Hog Farm permit denied. This bill weakens existing […]
Must protect our river As someone who has witnessed firsthand the precipitous degradation of the Buffalo River, I took heart when the state agency that granted the initial permit finally recognized what the experts had said from the start: The geology of the watershed was far too porous, the transmission […]
Arkansasonline Bill would transfer Arkansas hog farms’ oversight Permit-process shield also proposed by Emily Walkenhorst The responsible party for issuing hog farm permits would change under a bill that cleared an Arkansas Senate committee Thursday. The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality would no longer have the authority to issue — or […]
DCReport Trump Administration Pays Brazilian Meatpacker To Foul Arkansas River Bailout Money Intended for Hog Farmers Ends Up in Corporate Coffers By Sarah Okeson A Brazilian-owned meatpacking firm that buys pork from an Arkansas farm suspected of fouling our nation’s first national river would receive about $5 million from Trump’s bailout program for American […]
Take action to save the river by RICHARD MASON Special to the Democrat-Gazette | February 24, 2019 at 1:52 a.m. To The Beautiful Buffalo River Action Committee: Resign! You are doing more harm to the Buffalo National River by existing than you are by proposing watershed improvements. You are putting […]
Arkansasonline OPINION MASTERSON ONLINE: A misleading plan by Mike Masterson My Feb. 16 column described how C&H Hog Farms wrongly claimed in its Regulation 6 nutrient management plan that 80 percent of its phosphorus-laden hog waste would not be spread across the Buffalo National River and Big Creek watersheds. That naturally […]